Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters. — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny - but how… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now.… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness,… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even if the film doesn't come out quite as you'd hoped, the process can also be very rewarding. I feel that way… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
“ Father, we are uniquely capable of morality. We must be moral, because we can be moral. He stood very still as… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
I like being the villian. I don't know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I used to search and search for that actor or actress who's exactly what's in my head. But you have to realize… — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but… — Dolph Ziggler Copy Share Image
“As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money,… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
“When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film… — David Robert Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
I feel strongly for the younger actresses when a lot of their career is based on how they look. That must be… — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I have no accurate sense of what I actually look like. I've seen… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he became one, that would be interesting. But you have to give him somewhere to go, as [Conan] Doyle did.” quote by Mark Gatiss](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1f4/mark-gatiss-10930_character_that-s-what-makes-characters-interesting_1540528.jpg)
